HAITI: Enter Mama Doc

Citizen Doctor François Duvalier . . . has chosen Citizen Jean-Claude Duvalier to succeed him to the Presidency for Life of the Republic. Does this choice answer your aspirations and your desires? Do you ratify it?

Last week 2,391,916 residents of Haiti voted out to "Papa Doc" Duvalier's proposal that he be succeeded by his hulking son, Jean-Claude, 19. If anybody voted non, the Port-au-Prince papers did not mention it.

Most educated Haitians who are acquainted with the 200-lb. "Baskethead," as Jean-Claude is known, are said to be less hostile to the idea...

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